POSITION ON THE RUSSIAN FRONTIERS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 June 1941, Page 5

POSITION ON THE RUSSIAN FRONTIERS

Germans Claim Deep Penetration in North SOVIET REPORTS SUCCESSFUL RESISTANCE IN SOUTH FOUR APPARENT LINES OF NAZI ATTACK LONDON, June 26. There is little fresh news from Moscow or Berlin of the battles raging between Russian and German forces. A statement issued in Berlin gives scarcely any details of the actual operations, but is largely confined to general claims that the German forces have scored successes, both on land and in the air. The Soviet troops continue to resist stoutly. Sporadic advances have been made by German armoured units, followed by infantry, deep into the Russian positions. A military expert in London states that the Germans appear to be developing four lines of attack. The first is from East Prussia via the Baltic States to Leningrad. The Russians admit that the Germans have reached the neighbourhood of Vilna, the capital of Lithuania, Leningrad has been violently bombed during’ the past/two days. The second attack runs roughly on the Napoleonic route to Moscow (by way of Poland). The Russians admit that the Germans have developed the offensive on this front and it appears that these two northern routes are the chief German drives at the present time. The third attack is on the Galician front, but the Russians claim that the Germans have been held up in this area and that they have recaptured one point. The fourth drive is south from Rumania, directed towards the Southern Ukraine. Here again the Russians say they have held up the Germans on the line of the River Pruth.